Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 1960 | Tapestries by Lenore Tawney, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 1961 | Lenore Tawney, Staten Island Museum, New York, NY |
| 1962 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1967-81 | Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (1967, 69, 75, 81)
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| 1967-74 | Willard Gallery, New York, NY (1967, 70, 74) |
| 1968 | Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1969-90 | Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL (1969, 80, 90) |
| 1970 | Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1975 | Lenore Tawney, California State University, Fullerton, CA |
| 1978 | Lenore Tawney: A Personal World, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT |
| 1979 | Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
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| 1980 | Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA |
| 1981 | Lenore Tawney: Fibers/Collages, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
| 1985-86 | Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY (1985, 86) |
| 1988 | Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1990 | Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design), New York, NY (national tour)
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| 1992 | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 1994-98 | Tenri Gallery, New York, NY (1994, 98) |
| 1995 | Lenore Tawney: Boundless World, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | Lenore Tawney: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Lenore Tawney: roots, tendrils, threads, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Lenore Tawney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lenore Tawney: Shrines, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Lenore Tawney: Vestures of Water, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Lenore Tawney: Meditations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Lenore Tawney: Shrines Part II, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 2003 | Lenore Tawney: Visions in Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2012 | Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2013 | Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 1956 | Craftsmanship in a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design) inaugural exhibition, New York, NY |
| 1958 | American Artists and Craftsmen, American Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1962 | Adventures in Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA |
| 1963 | Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (international tour)
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| 1964 | Gewebte Formen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| 1969 | Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Premieres at National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (national and international tour) Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (national tour) |
| 1970 | Neuerwerbungen aus den letzten Jahren, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1973 | Fibre Art, Halls Exhibition Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1974 | Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY In Praise of Hands, Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Canada Fiber Forms… past and present, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT |
| 1975 | 7éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1977 | Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Lenore Tawney and a Fiber Tradition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| 1978 | Tawney/Higa/Sawada, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ |
| 1979 | 100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland  |
| 1981 | Lenore Tawney/Toshiko Takaezu, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI The Art Fabric Mainstream, American Federation of Arts. Premieres at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (national tour) Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY |
| 1982 | Fiber 82, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ |
| 1983 | 11éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1986 | Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (national tour) Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (national tour) |
| 1987 | The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, OK (national and international tour) |
| 1989 | Craft Today USA, organized by American Craft Museum, New York. Premieres at Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (international tour) Fiber Concepts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Premieres at Ishikawa Design Center, Kanazawa, Japan (international tour) |
| 1990 | Revered Earth, Premieres at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (national tour) |
| 1991 | Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1993 | Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 1994 | Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
| 1996 | Fiber and Form: The Womanʼs Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
| 1998 | North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Material Perception – Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC |
| 2003 | Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Valencia, Spain |
| 2003 | Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA |
| 2004 | Traditions/Transformations: The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
| 2008 | Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2012 | Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (national and international tour) To Be a Lady, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 2013 | Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany The Art of Handwriting, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (national tour) Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany   |
| 2014 | Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA (national tour) |
| 2015 | Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (national tour) Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |